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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-03-23
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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-03-23

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Smyrna times., 1887-04-06
The Fountain in Parma.

In the square close by is a statue to
ParmeggianinO, of recent workmanship,
and drinking fountain. There are but
two or three shoots of water in Parma,
but even that is more than one can find
in most of these plain towns, and, es-
pecially to the traveller who has lust left
Switzerland, the loss of running water is
great. No Swiss village is so mean, no
town so crowded, but from an unpretend-
ing iron pipe there gushes forth, pellucid,
glittering and opulent, a stream of the
purest and freshest water, which leaps in
4 joyous and elastic curve into a basin
with gay flash by night and by day,
and pours off with ungrudging profusion.
But in these Lombard towns scarcely
here and there can be found a numbering
pump, with long and massive handle, at
which few minutes severe toll produces
a mighty poor and niggardly dribble of
water. Where fountains are they prattle
with fatigued and parsimonious note,
and shelter their inadequacy under some
statue i'll the modern taste.
As a rule, the modern taste in italy Is
not one whit better than in England.
They delight to honor the martyrs and
the heroes of United Italy. No town but
has its Corso Vittorio Emmanuel and its
Via Cavour, with for the most part
statues of tho same. Here and there is
a Via Massimo d d'Azeglio with no statue.
These works of art are not better than are
effigies of Mr.. Golden or Sir Robert Peel,
and the crOwning horror of all is statue
of Victor Emmanuel here in the Piazza
di COrte. 1t would bring blush to the
cheek of a Yankee stonemason. Gentle
mans Magazine.
Smyrna times., 1887-04-06
Can't Afford To Marry.

Women complain that so few men can
afford to marry. Whose fault is it,?
cries a critic. The girls go to all the
balls expensively chaperoned; they
talk-mOst of them-as if life were one
continual holiday to them, as if their
fingers were employed at home only in
the most delicate and dainty Occupa-
tiOns, as it their whole time were spent
In trltling round of visiting or enter
tainment. They cloak their real and
better selves with a volatile senseless-
ness to suit their company, and who can
wonder that the man of moderate in
come dares not, however much he NAV
IN one sense admire them, propose to
such girl? He knows that his wife.
in her early married life at any rate,
may have to make a pudding, darn
socks or trim lamp.
How can he suppose those apparently
aimless, giddy, butterfly girls would
dream OF undertaking such occupations
with heartful delight? 1t is onlV some
times and by the merest chance, that
the man who has danced, boated.
played tennis and firted with these
girls discovers how sterling and true
IS the mental that by custom, fashion
and the mimicry of human nature.
Is Overlaid by so much fimsv tinsel.
There are very few men who bv
their unaided sense or instinct recog-
nlze the true value of the characters
that are so disguised and hidden.
Smyrna times., 1887-04-06
A Night signal Lantern.

A successful test of the Oatman night
signal lantern was made in New York the
other night by officers of the army and
navy. The common torch, lighted with
lard oil OF turpentine, has heretofore been
used for carrying messages at night be-
tween far off stations, on board ship as
well as on shore, but the system has
proved untrustworthy. The Oatman Lam
tern is so arranged by simple mechani-
cal device that flashes of light can be
shown as desired. These flashes CORES
pond with the dash and the dot in the
electric telegraph system, a long fash
corresponding with the dash, and short
fash with the dot. The lantern is not
more than eighteen inches high, and
eight inches square. A small lamp with
the flame in the focus of a paTabohc re-
fiector furnishes the light. Fans close
before the flame, by means OF which the
flashes are regulated, according to. the
Morse system of telegraphy. The fame
is rendered steady by means Of . forced
draught. The longest Distance ignaled
has been between F'crt Myer and Sugar
Luaf mountain, Va, about thirty-hve
miles; signals have been exchanged be-
tween the reservoir in Brooklyn and
Sandy Hook, about twenty miles apart.
Boston Budget.
Smyrna times., 1887-04-06
New Duck Greek Bridge.

The Levy Court Thursday adopted
the report of the committee favoring
the construction of new iron bridge
across Duck creek in Blackbird hun
dred. The bridge will be built by New
Castle and Kent county, jointly. The
Levy Court gave it's opinion that the
bridge should be at least Is feet wide.
90 feet long and Is inches higher than
the present wooden structure. The
committee for New Castle county con.
sisted of Levy COurtmen Grubb, Shall
cross and ROthwell will meet the
Kent county committee consisting of
Levy COurtmen Farrell, Clouds and
Reese at the bridge site on April 9th to
confer with the bridge builders and
contractors who wish to bid for the
work. 1t is estimated that the new
bridge will cost from 81, 900 to $4,000.
Smyrna times., 1887-04-06
The Unseen Forces Of Nature.

Nature Is ever undoing what she has
already done, ever pulling her own work
TO pieces, as though dissatisfied with it,
and wishing to build it up anew. She
brings flowers, trees, men and women into
existence, tends them with loving care,
brings them TO maturity, and consigns
them to decay. The sun rises to the zenith,
only to sink again beneath the horizon.
Winter melts into spring, and spring into
summer; but summer passes into autumn,
and autumn into winter again. And so
it is with greater things as well. The
earth upon which we live had its begin
ming; can we doubt that it also must meet
its end? Even as We pass our little day
upon It we can see it change before our
eyes, viewing, as it were, but one short
scene in the mighty drama upon which
the curtain must fall at last. Forces, ami
mate and manimate, are ever at work
above, below and around us. Islands are
raised from the sea; mountains open and
belch forth their fiery torrents upon the
country for miles around; floods perform
their work Of destruction; glaciers move
slowly onward, and sweep hamlets and
villages away. And the unseen forces of
nature are working as surely and as stead
lily as the seen. That ''we die daily is
no mere figure of speech; at every breath
we cast Off part Of our substance, effeto
matter from which the life has departed.
And the earth dies daily, too.-TheOdoro
Wood in Sunday Magazine,
Smyrna times., 1887-04-06
Kenton.

AS we remarked before, the little
would be town of Kenton, unlike Will
mington, is suffering from too much rep
resentatlOn. Its senator, DIR. CoOper.
and its representative, Mr.. Temple
how powerful an illustration of the ex-
ecrabie injustice of our system of rep-
resentation is the showing that this
village of 240 inhabitants cast the
same vote in both houses of the leg
islature as do the $4,000 citizens Of
WilmingtOn--KentOn's senator and
representative have been pitted against
each other all through the ses-
sion on the great local issue of town
charter. Representative Temple has
the almost unanimous backing of his
fellow-townsmen, who have habit of
running down to Dover in force every
few days to give the charter a push.
1t went through the House without
much trouble, and Wednesday it got
through the Senate-after DR.. CoOper
got in his work on it. The doctor
secured the passage, by his fellow-sena-
tors, OF an amendment embOdying the
main points he has insisted onSnon-
taxation of farm lands and stock and
go-as-you-please sidewalks. 1t is high
ly probable that the people of KentOn,
aided by their other legislator, Mr..
Temple, will have influence enough
with the House to induce that BODY
to refuse concurrence in DR.. Cooper's
amendments; then committees of con-
ference and an indefinite amount OF
legislative sparring for a compromise
will be in order. And Kenton has
Just as much to say in the General
Assembly on important issues, like
constitutional reform, as Wilmington
has; the vote of Senator Cooper NAV
cancel the vote of Senator McWhorter
and the vote of Representative Taylor
counts for as much as that of Repre-
sentative Ware. .-ECery EUenin0.
Smyrna times., 1887-04-06
A Former Delawarean Reouperating
in Florida.

Rev, George d. Watson, D. D., one
of the most popular pulpit orators in
the Methodist Episcopal Church in the
country, and who was stationed at
Doverin 1875, is at present in Florida,
suffering from extreme nervous pros
tratiOn complicated with consumpt ption.
DR.. Watson is one of the leaders in the
National Camp-meeting Association.
DR.. Watson and Rev. Adam Stengle, of
Union Church, Wilmington, were
school mates at Accomac, Virginia.
When the war broke out Mr.. Stengle
joined the Union army, enlisting with
the Purnell Legion, while his play
mate joined the COnfederates. About
the close of the war the latter, while in
the Richmond trenches, became con-
verted. Upon being mustered ont he
commenced studying for the ministry
His success as a preacher has heen al
most phenomenal, and his condition
arOuses extreme anxiety among his
friends throughout the State.
Smyrna times., 1887-04-06
To Protect Scary Horses,

DR.. Cooper, the Kenton member of
the State Senate, has bill under way
which will probably please owners of
skittish horses as much as it will dis
gust the knights of the rolling wheel.
The traction engine is the main horse
trIghtener the senator is cunning for.
but a subsidiary clause requires bicv-
clists, to stop their machines and dis
mount while vehicles drawn bv steeds
pass by, under a penalty of SIS. AS
to traction engines, they are not to be
allowed on the roads after dark. be-
tween z. NJ. and 5 A. NJ, and during
the day they must be preceded by a
mounted man to warn teams that the
engine is approaching, having done
which he must cause the engine to be
halted until the teams pass by. There
Is labor and sorrow ahead for the
traction engine man, particularly in
the busy season, when time means
money to him. Still the roads were
made for hOrsefesh rather than for
steam, EUery EUening.
Smyrna times., 1887-04-06
English as She is Taught.

MARX vain contributes TO the April
Century under the above title some ex-
amples of the curious answers made by
pupils in our public schools. We
quote few as follows:
" AbOrignes, a system of mountains.
alias, good man in the Bible.
AmenabIe, anything that is mean.
AsSiduity, state of being acid.
AUriferOuS, pertaining to an Orifce.
ammonia, the food of the gods.
Capillary, little caterpillar.
COrnJerOuS, rocks in which fossil
corn is found.
EmOlument, headstOne to a grave.
Equestrian, one who asks questions.
Eucharist, one who plays euchre.
Franchise, anything belonging to the
French.
IdOldter. very idol person.
Lpecdc, a man who likes Il good din
ner.
Irrigdte, to make fun of.
MeRdGciOUs, what can be mended.
MercenGry, one who feels for another
Parasite, kind of umbrella.
Parasite, the murder of an infant.
Publican, man who does his pray
ers in public.
Tenacious, ten acres of land"
Here is one where the phrase "pub.
licans and sinners" has got mixed III
in the childs mind with politics, and
the result is a sudden and unexpected
way:
" Republican, a sinner mentioned il
the Bible.'
Also in Democratic newspapers now
and then.
Here are two where the mistake ha!
resulted from sound assisted by remote
fact
Hdgiarist, a writer of plays.
DemagOgUe, vessel containing
beer and other liquids
Here is one which-well. now, how
often we do slam right into the trutl
without ever suspecting it:
The men employed by the Ca
Company so round and speculate th,
meter"
And here with geological" ant
geological" in his mind, but not read,
to his tOngue-the small scholar has in
nOcently gone and let out couple O
secrets which ought never to hav
been divulged in any circumstances
There are good many dOnkeys il
theological gardens.
Some of the best fossils are foun,
in theological cabinets"
Smyrna times., 1887-04-06
The Georgia Peach Crop.

Judge Anderson, commissioner OF
agriculture for Georgia, is in receipt
of intelligence which indicates that
the peach crop in that state has been
badly injured by the late cold snap.
John II. Parnell, of West Point, the
largest peach grower in Georgia, says
Peaches badly killed. On high ridges
and branches of water ground nearly
all are killed. One-eight to one-uuar.
ter crop" Other large growers con-
cur in this estimate, whilst others
think the damage is not SO great.
Smyrna times., 1887-04-06
The Birds.

The spring birds are coming. and the
notes of the black bird, the blue bird
and robin are heard among the leafess
branches, selecting the bOughs on
which to build their marvellous nests.
These birds are among the farmers
best friends. Even the robin, which is
a great cherry and berry thief, DESTROYS
countless numbers of insects while
feeding its young. All brels must use
insect food for their brood while it is in
the nest. The black bird is a great in
sect hunter and the orchard and lawn
trees are favOrite places for their nest
ing. Farmers and other idle bows
wontonly kill great many of these
most useful birds, and some farmers
even in this enlightened age complain
of the blackbird pulling up the young
corn. Birds pull up very little corn.
The injury which they do the farmer
in this way is recompensed thousand
fold by the insects they destroy, and
advantage the orchards and crops de.
rive from the presence of numerous
birds is not easily computed. Do not
allow boys and idle tramps to shoot the
birds or frighten them by firing guns
in the vicinity of their nesting places.
Year after year they will return to
build their nests in the same groves if
not mOlested.
The above from an exchange excepts
the English sparrOws, which are real
pests and should be exterminated.
Smyrna times., 1887-04-06
The Ideal War Corresrondsnt.

The ideal war correspondent must be a
man who has among other things the gift
of tongues. He must speak in addition
to the ordinary European languages some
of the Asiatic, including Afghanistan,
and some African, including Soudanese,
Ashantee, Abyssinian and Zulu. He
must have a lovely temper, amiable as
woman and as affable as a candidate
who is Canvassing for your vote, and at the
same time he must be big and ugly
enough to scare off whole armies. He must
be able to ride anything from a giraffe to
a rat, and be able to sit in She saddle for
100 miles at a stretch, to go without eat
ing for week, to write good, legible
round hand SO the clerk at the telegraph
station can read it. He must write at the
rate of a column an hour, and often
write eight columns and then gallop back
to the scene of action. He must be able
to tell every move that is going to be
made and scent a battle long before it
takes place, and then while it is raging
he must tell how it is going and what
will be the result long before it termin-
ates. All these accomplishments would
make man an ideal correspondent, but
there never was such a man. Julius
Caesar would have made a good one if
there had been such men in those DAYS,
and Napoleon the First would have
eclipsed Julius Caesar if he could have
learned to be ruthful.-London Cor.
New York Mail and Express.
Smyrna times., 1887-04-06

Thirty-eight lawyers of New Castle
county, fourteen from Kent and a num-
Der from Sussex, have signed a petition
to Governor Biggs asking him to ap-
point his son John encouragement.
A number signed similar petition in
favor of Alexander b. Cooper, ESQ
Several prominent attorneys said that
George II. Bates, Esq, was candidate
for the appointment, but no petition in
his favor was seen.
Smyrna times., 1887-04-06
A Patron OF Art.

The so called patron of art is often a
vulgar millionaire, who thinks that the
artist he invites to dinner should pay for
his meal by entertaining the guests. A
rich banker Of Paris once invited Chopin,
the Polish pianist and composer, to din
ner. When the guests had risen from the
table and repaired to the drawing room
Midas, tine host, pointed to a piano. and,
in matter of fact style, as if he were in
his own bank, insisted on Chopin playing
something.
Chopin was a true gentleman, but he
could be finely satirical when he chose to
be so.
"But, monsieur, the baron" said he,
extending his hands, deprecatingly, Il
have eaten very little. Youths Com
paniOn.
Smyrna times., 1887-04-06
WonderFnI Curaa

W. d. Hoyt Il Co, Wholesale and Retail Drug
gists Of Rome, Ga says: We have been selling
DR.: Kings New Discovery, Electric Bitters and
never handled remedies that sell as well, or give
such universal satisfaction. There have been
some wonderful cures effected by these medicines
IN this city. Several cases Of pronounced Con-
ieW'bottles Of Dr. Kings New Discovery taken in
connection With Electric Rittevs, We guarantee
them always Sold by Iaa +. HOheokeT feb23-ly
Smyrna times., 1887-04-06

The Legislature of New York has
passed the Crosby High License bill,
the Republicans voting for it, and the
Democrats and Temperance people
joining their forces to defeat the mea-
sure. The bill now goes to Governor
Hill for signature or veto. The Demo-
Gratis are urging him to veto it.
Smyrna times., 1887-04-06
Care of the Skin.

Everybody knows that, in many dis
eases, the battle is lost or won on the
field of the skin; according as its safety
valve functions rise or fall, Il is the
principle outlet of the body. -Four times
more matter is carried out of the body BY
the cutaneOus surface every day than by
the alimentary canal.
u is complete web of nerves and
blood vessels; its thickly studded pores
constitute the vastest system of corporeal
drainage, Twenty-eight miles of tubing,
100000 pores, II these become par
tally closed, disease is certain. 1t is pre-
eminently fitted and intended to be the
battle ground of the physician in his con-
flict with disease.-F. G. Welsh, NJ. d.
Smyrna times., 1887-04-06
The Sohoolmarm.

See where she comes adown the lane,
With gladneSs in her laughing eye,
And in her hand the rattan cane
viii murder laughter by and by.
Young love turks in her merry tone.
And nestles in her rOguish looks
And long, hard. crooked questions moan
And sob and SnifIle in her books.
Her dimpled hand. that seeks the curl
COquetting with her graceful head.
Can make boys ears RUG and whirl
And make the boy wish he were dead.
How much she knows, this blooming rose
Ofhuman will and human won't;
One wonder is, how much she knows
The other is, how much she don't.
Sweet pedagOgue. envy not
The merry boys who greet thy call
Thy mother cutied my ears, good wOt
When she was young and was small.
-Burdette in the Brooklyn Eagle
Smyrna times., 1887-04-06

"Slesp breathes at last from out of
thee, my little patient boy" Oh | yes,
certainly, But that child would have
cried all night with his foot, if it had
not been for a timely bottle ofSalvation
Oil. Only twenty-five cents expended
brought him rest.
Smyrna times., 1887-04-06

The Lord Mayor of London was only
a porter in n warehouse, but he pre-
severed in the face of all opposition
and rose rapidly It is only persistency
and merit that has made DR.. Bulls
Cough Syrup the greatest family rem
edy for coughs and colds now offered
to the suffering public.
Smyrna times., 1887-04-06

The President has appointed Chas.
s. Fairchild Secretary of the Treasury.
He has been assistant for some time
under Mr.. Manning. The Free Traders
ought to be satisfied with him, if the
WugWumps are not.
Smyrna times., 1887-04-06
Drunkenness, or LIQUOR Habit,

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whether the patient is moderate drinker
or an alcoholic wreck Thousands of
drunkards have been made temperate men
who have taken the Golden Specific in their
coffee without their knowledge, and to-day
believe they quit drinking of their own free
will No harmful effect results from its
administration. Cures guaranteed. Send
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in confidence GOLDEN SPECIFIC Co., 1856
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Smyrna times., 1887-04-06

The Interstate commerce law will
be hard one on the small travelling
show companies. Where they formerly
paid rate of II cents per mile and
carried extra baggage they must now
pay s cents per mile and are only
allowed $50 pounds of baggage. Many
of the troupes will disband after April
Ist.
Smyrna times., 1887-04-06

Robert A. Woodward, of Newark,
has sued the Wilmington Republican,
for $4,000 damages. The paper
charged him with driving his daughter
out of the house and abusing her, in
its issne of November End last.
Smyrna times., 1887-04-06
GrnnAIu E-ni4oh

Not few of the citizens of Smyrna have recent,
ly excited over the ASTONISHING facts that seversl
OF Their friends who had been pronounced by
thelF physicians as incurable and beyond all
hope-suhering with that dreaded monster Con-
Kings New Discovery for Consumption the only
remedy that does positively cure all throat and
lung diseases, Coughs, Colds, Asthma and Bron.
GhitiS. Trial bottle free at Jas. p HOffecker's
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Smyrna times., 1887-04-06
SONNET TO LIBERTY.

Not that love thy children, whose dull eyes
See nothing save their own unloyey woe,
Whose minds know nothing, nothing care 70
know
But that the roar of thy democracIes,
Thy reigns Of terror. thy great anErchies,
Mirror my widest passions like the sea
And give my rage a brother! Liberty.
For this sake only do thy dissonant cries
Delight my discreet soul. else might all kings
By bloody knOut or treacherous cannonades
Rob nations Of their rights inviolate
And remain unmovcd- and yet and yet,
These Chrsts that die upon the barricadcs,
God knows it, am with them. in some things
Oscar Wilde
Smyrna times., 1887-04-06

Mr.. G. %. Reardop, baltimore, Md,
Commissioner of Deeds for all the
States, suffered for a long time with
rheumatism, which yielded promptly
to St. Jacobs Oil.
Smyrna times., 1887-04-06
TannInr Tertlle Rabrics.

A Belgian textile manufacturer has de
vised a process for tanning textile fabrics
which renders them waterproof and proof
against decay, without increasing their
weight.
Smyrna times., 1887-04-06

Diptheria is frequently the result ofa
neglected sore throat, which can be
cured by single bottle of Red Star
Cough Cure. Price, twenty-five cents
q bottle.
Smyrna times., 1887-04-06

When a young man who vhas oudt Of
work and money und in rags comes to
you for help, tell him ''dere vhas room at
der top" 1t vhas good advice-und
very sheap.-Carl Dunder in Detroit
Free Press.
Smyrna times., 1887-04-06

By the passage of Senator McWhor-
ter's bill primary elections in Delaware
become legal institutions, and bribery,
false counting, etc. punishable by law.
Smyrna times., 1887-04-06

Delaware has living five ex-Governors
Ross, Ponder, Cochran, Hall and
Stockley, three of them from Sussex,
and one each from Kent and New Cas-
| tie.
Smyrna times., 1887-04-06

If you gif somepody advice find out
first how he believes, und den make your
advice to agree with it. Der man whose
advice doan' tally NIT our opinions vhas
no Rood.-Carl Dunder,
Smyrna times., 1887-04-06

1t is said that o person can live cheaper,
and at the same time more artistocrat-
ically, In Geneva, Switzerland, than in
any other city in the world.
Smyrna times., 1887-04-06
Furniture of all kinds.

ParlOr ana Chamber Suits. Bureaus Bedsteads,
Chairs Lounges, Tables. Stands. Mattresses. Spring
Beds and every thing in the Furniture Line guar
anteed at or less than City prices for the same
quality of goods. jan 5-tf
Smyrna times., 1887-04-06

Chief Justice and Mrs. Comegys en-
tertained several of their relatives and
friends Wednesday evening, in honor
Ofthe 50th anniversary Oftheir marriage.
The Chief Justice in conversation Fri
day morning said that he remember
ed on the 22nd of April so years ago
there were quite snow fall. The
snow did not last long, it being nearly
all gone by night.
Smyrna times., 1887-04-06

He benefits himself that doth good
to others.